Quotes of Kennedy - somelinesforyou

“ Americans always respond when a president calls them, as John F. Kennedy did in his inaugural address, to defend freedom. ”

- Suzanne Fields

“ I would say that without any doubt he's the killer - the law says beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty which I - there's no question that he was the killer of President Kennedy. ”

- Henry Wade

“ Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara, who is a good businessman and likes to save, says it would be only 200 million. ”

- Norman Thomas

“ If she had lived, Mary Jo Kopechne would be 62 years old. Through his tireless work as a legislator, Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age. ”

- Charles Pierce

“ His campaign sounded a note of the bogusly grand. Hart is Kennedy typed on the eighth carbon. ”

- Lance Morrow

“ I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy. ”

- Harold Macmillan

“ Ted Kennedy is endorsing John Kerry and I'm wondering, do you really want the endorsement of a guy with a Bloody Mary mustache? ”

- David Letterman

“ I'll tell you what PAYGO means, when you're a senator from Massachusetts, when you're a colleague of Ted Kennedy, pay go means: You pay, and he goes ahead and spends. ”

- George W. Bush

“ Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara… are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport. ”

- Saul Alinsky

“ I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for. ”

- Lyndon B. Johnson

“ Be an optimist — at least until they start moving animals in pairs to Cape Kennedy. ”

- Unknown

“ If I am to die, this is the week for it. — John F. Kennedy June 1962. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ If I do the right kind of a job, I don't know whether I am going to be here four years from now. — John F. Kennedy ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ If someone is going to kill me, they are going to kill me. — John F. Kennedy 1962. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps-they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers. ”

- Theodore H. White

“ When I'm thinking of myself in a good light, I think of myself as a character actor, like Peter Sellers or Alec Guiness or Robert Duvall or George Kennedy or Joe Don Baker, all those big Nordic actors. But I always thought of it as a supporting role. And I don't have a problem with that, because I ain't no leadin' man… ”

- Andy Richter

“ The Kennedys, they were great… I always admired President John Kennedy very much. He had a marvelous personality. A great, strong face to paint, too. Robert Kennedy was the one, though, I guess I enjoyed painting the most. His hair fascinated me… ”

- Norman Rockwell

“ I did not kill President Kennedy or Officer Tippit. If you want me to cop out to hitting or pleading guilty to hitting a cop in the mouth when I was arrested, yeah, I plead guilty to that. But I do deny shooting both the President and Tippit. ”

- Lee Harvey Oswald

“ My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think Johnson should have done it, and I don't think we should have done it. ”

- Richard M. Nixon

“ I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong's landing, I was at university rehearsing a play. ”

- Sam Neill

“ John Kerry was the big winner in Iowa. Ted Kennedy introduced Kerry as the 'comeback kid.' That used to be Bill Clinton's name - because every time he would come back to a city, he would find out if he had a kid or not. ”

- Jay Leno

“ We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block. ”

- John Kerry

“ What's nice about my dating life is that I don't have to leave my house. All I have to do is read the paper: I'm marrying Richard Gere, dating Daniel Day-Lewis, parading around with John F. Kennedy, Jr., and even Robert De Niro was in there for a day. ”

- Julia Roberts

“ The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam… ”

- J. G. Ballard

“ I have nothing against the Queen of England. Even in my heart I never resented her for not being Jackie Kennedy. She is, to my mind, a very gallant lady, victimized by whoever it is who designs the tops of her uniforms. ”

- Leonard Cohen
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